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In this space, we will explore how it is we might grow closer to God through writing down our words. We will explore various kinds of spiritual journaling and read, from time to time, the spiritual journals of Christian writers of the past and present. The focus will be on our own spiritual practice before God.

In this space, each person will have an opportunity to experience God through communion. Those who are ok with receiving communion online may do so, and others who desire to experience communion through their own tradition in a face to face context may choose to go that route. Either way, there will be opportunities to experience communion (Eucharist, Lord's Supper) in a number of ways and to share our experience together.

In this space, we experience the worship of God through liturgy. We will experience different liturgical traditions, going back to the early church liturgies all the way through 21st century liturgies. The focus in this particular is to worship and journal on your experience through the group blog.

In this space, we will practice fasting from a number of perspectives -- Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Emerging perspectives, both from West and East, and the Global North and South. The focus on the group is experiencing fasting together. We will have a group journal where we share our experiences of God and self through fasting. The group will get going when we have a certain number of members.

Experiencing worship through icons and the visual arts has a long history and yet still inspires and leads us to God today. In this group, we will sit experience a different icon every week. For now, this will be an ongoing group, and it will get going as soon as we get enough members.

When I started my DMiss at Fuller, Ryan Bolger introduced me to the concept of the "flipped" classroom. Here is a helpful graphic from www.knewton.com that describes how the "flipped" classroom is different than a traditional one.